Washed in the Word

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First Peter focused on beleaguered believers bearing up under persecution.  So, the threat in First Peter was external.  Second Peter focuses on false teachers.  The threat in Second Peter is internal but all the more lethal.  The New Testament is quite clear that the greatest threat to the church is not external persecution, painful though it may be.  The greatest threat to God’s church is internal doctrinal pollution.  It is found in false teachers corrupting the gospel, ensnaring the unsuspecting, & bringing the Way of Christ into disrepute.  There is hardly a book of the New Testament that does not warn us against the danger of false teachers.  So in our fourth message from Second Peter in our series, "The More You Know," today, we need to "Know Our Adversaries."   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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In a day when people are chasing & embracing every wind of doctrine.  In an era where it is taken as an absolute truth that there are no absolute truths, it is critical that we Know Our Scriptures.  The antidote to the poison of false teaching is the undiluted Truth of God found in the Word of God that points us back to the Son of God so that we might find the grace of God.  But false teachers are going to say they have additional revelation or better revelation & they will try to steer us away from our Savior using these supposedly “superior” scriptures.  Which is why God’s Word tells you & I:  "Know your Scriptures." Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Second Peter is the last love letter to beleaguered believers from the pen of Peter.  Roman Emperor Nero is in charge & he has been a scandalous scourge to the cause of Christ.   Peter knows that his leadership & apostleship are about to be extinguished by martyrdom & he wants his torch to be passed on so that his exit does not extinguish the light of Christ.  Whereas First Peter dwelt on how to persevere under persecution, Second Peter distills the core information we need to be effective & productive in our knowledge of Jesus Christ. Peter lays out five things believers must know.  Today, we tackle the second of those critical five areas: "Know Your Salvation."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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The most important question one can ask is: "Who is Jesus?"  Depending on who you ask, you may hear that Jesus was a great moral teacher like Socrates, Buddha or Gandhi.  Or that Jesus was a paragon of compassion like Mother Theresa, Francis of Assisi or Florence Nightingale.  Skeptics portray Jesus as an itinerant Rabbi whose followers got carried away.  He may have been a Mandela-like figure but he was just a man, cynics say.

How would someone who knew Jesus intimately answer this crucial question?  The Apostle Peter walked with Jesus for three years.  Peter watched Jesus teach with powerful authority.  Peter observed Jesus heal the sick, cure the deaf, give sight to the blind, & cause the lame to walk.  Peter witnessed Jesus order demons out of the devastated.  Peter watched Jesus even raise the dead.  Peter, who was an eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry, offers His Spirit-inspired testimony.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the downloadable sermon outline & study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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How would you end a letter to beleaguered believers scattered, battered & tattered for standing for Christ in a world that was hostile to the gospel? What would your final words be to those you want to encourage to persevere when the going is rough?  What would you say to those willingly undergoing unjust suffering for the sake of Christ?  Our text today is the Holy Spirit’s words to such saints through the pen of the Apostle Peter who offers "Three Keys to Being an Effective Witness in a Defective World."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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What ought we look for in a shepherd?  Christians and churches have a lot of expectations for pastors but what are God's expectation for shepherds?  1 Peter 5 is one of the most helpful texts in all the Bible in answer to this crucial question.  we have many expectations for shepherds.  But what are God’s expectations?  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Have you ever wondered: Why this?  Why me?  Why now?  Over 40 years ago Harold Kushner wrote a best seller entitled “When Bad Things Happen to Good People?”  For most folks the question isn’t when, but why?  “Why do bad things happen to good people.”   Christians often wonder “Why do bad things happen to God’s people?”Indeed this will be the subject the Holy Spirit moves the pen of Peter to unpack in our time together today in 1 Peter 4:12-19.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Today the Bible calls us to three things that will help us as elect exiles to minister to our neighbor & bring glory to our Savior.  "A Big Three for You & Me: Suffering, Supplication & Service".  These three are found in 1 Peter 4.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Have you noticed that sometimes following Jesus hurts?  Our passage today speaks about suffering in the will of God.  The Bible is not bashful about this subject.  Peter began our epistle by telling us that as elect exiles we should not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon us as though something strange were happening to us For the past few sessions our near context in chapters 2 & 3 has called us to submission to unrighteous civil authorities, submission to unjust employers, & submission to imperfect spouses.  Today Peter sums up these lessons on submission with a call to us all to repress our reflex towards retaliation substituting what comes naturally for what must come supernaturally.  You can’t get more radical in your reorientation to kingdom thinking than Peter’s call to "Suffering in the Will of God."   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Our text today takes us to challenging places.  To the original hearers these words upended societal norms in liberating but threatening ways. To modern ears these same words are equally challenging but for the opposite reason.  These words are threatening not for their radical liberation but for their seemingly unseemly subjugation. 1st Peter is a monument to the vast difference between how we think & how God thinks.  Our culture says “do what you feel.” God says do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy.The world says rejoice in leisure & pleasure.  God says, rejoice, though now for a little while, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, may be found to result in praise & glory & honor at the revelation of Jesus.  Scoffers say "Where is this Jesus?  I do not see Him!"  God says: "Though you do not now see him, you believe in him & rejoice with joy that is inexpressible & filled with glory,  obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls."  Today, we come to the high water mark of counter-cultural instruction.  Peter moves from calls to submission to unrighteous civil authorities & unjust employers to calls to submission within our own walls.  Our text today zeros in on "Submission to Our Imperfect Spouses."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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